Richard Armstrong joined Guggenheim President Emeritus Jennifer Stockman and Rail Consulting Editor Joachim Pissarro to discuss the parallels of politics, religion, and art; the joys and challenges of spearheading one of New York’s most storied cultural institutions; and the importance of keeping the art—and the artists—close.
What is it like to be “of one’s time” and not? Leon Polk Smith was a prime progenitor of American hard-edged abstraction whose non-objective pedigree as a protégé of the painter and philanthropist Hilla Rebay, and subsequent track record of showing in the Betty Parsons and Egan Gallery early on, puts him squarely in the pocket of post-war American art ascendancy yet his legacy has subsequently remained a relatively independent part of that particular epic.
As Lisa Simpson once memorably remarked, “I can see the music.”
Pretty much anyone can these days.
Just switch on your device's audio visualizer.
That wasn’t the case in the 1940s, when psychologist Cecil A. Open Culture, openculture.com